Tailgate Tour Pays Special Visit To Wentz

Courtesy: cyclones.com

Release: 05/23/2012

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Long-time Cyclone football season-ticket holder and 1977 Iowa
State graduate Larry Wentz had a surprise visit from the Tailgate Tour to his
home Wednesday. The former Des Moines
and Sioux City news anchor is currently recovering from a liver transplant and could
not attend the afternoon's Tailgate Tour stop.
The surprise visit continued Wentz's streak of interacting with the Cyclone
coaches every year they have come to Sioux City for the Tailgate Tour.

Wentz was left speechless, a rare occasion for an esteemed
news anchor, when he saw the Cyclone coaches at this front door. Continually thanking the coaches and telling
them how much the visit meant to them, Wentz could hardly hold back his
emotions.

Wentz's accomplishments in the news anchor field made him
far from the only celebrity in his living room Wednesday. Wentz accomplished one of his ultimate career
goals this year by being named the 41st recipient of the Jack Shelley Award on
April 28. The honor is named after his
former journalism professor at Iowa State. Wentz gives Shelley credit for
recruiting him to venture from Minnesota to Ames to pursue his journalism
degree.

Wentz was the fourth former Jack Shelley student to win the
prestigious award.

As Wentz interacted with the Cyclone coaches, he made it
known that like the football team he is training this off-season for the Sept.
1 season opener. Before the coaches left
his house, Wentz told Rhoads he fully anticipates being back in Jack Trice
Stadium for the Cyclones' gridiron tilt with Tulsa.